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Day: September 14, 2017

It’s been a long time since I took an English course. It would have been in my last year of high school – three mathematics, three sciences, and English. You needed six credits and English was my fail safe. Sorry, English teachers.

Now, I did learn a great deal going to high school and I like to think that the skills learned there continue to serve me today. As a person who blogs every now and again, I do want to come across as somewhat literate. Blogging does give you license to do various things that were projects in high school. There are all kinds of things to try out.

How do I know if they’re effective? Really, I don’t. There’s always the kick that I get when someone writes a reply or shares a post with others. I’m pretty sure that this is inspired by an idea I’ve shared and not as an example of the quality of my writing. I do know that I’ve been affected by various authors on the internet and I know that periodically they do things that would have generated red ink in high school.

So, it was with more than a passing interest that I took at look at this blog post from the Google Open Source blog.

Holy Turabian, Batman. There are standards? Don’t people just sit down at a keyboard and hammer out instructions for their product? Or, take the original and plunk it into Google Translate so that it becomes “English” for sale in Canada? Could I have been right all along by asking my Computer Science students to create manuals/instructions for each program they submitted?